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  1. 210
    Same Website Request, Different Code — The Bias You Can't See
    Biased or Personalized? The Impact of Personal Information on AI-driven Development
    · ·14 min·Jul 09, 2026
  2. 209
    How 2.6 Billion Doodles Exposed the Culture Words Quietly Delete
    Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts
    · ·15 min·Jul 09, 2026
  3. 208
    The Blank Space in Your AI Approval Box That Isn't Empty
    Unicode TAG-Block Concealment of Tool-Metadata Payloads in the Model Context Protocol: An Approval-View Fidelity Gap Across Three Independent Server Implementations
    · ·15 min·Jul 08, 2026
  4. 207
    An AI Graded Its Own Math Test 94 Percent — It Actually Scored 20
    More Convincing, Not More Correct: Self-Play Reward Hacking of Reference-Free LLM Judges
    · ·12 min·Jul 08, 2026
  5. 206
    How Four-Second Clips Become Hours of Playable AI Soccer
    Multiplayer Interactive World Models with Representation Autoencoders
    · ·15 min·Jul 07, 2026
  6. 205
    The Same AI, Two Labels: How the Pitch Beat the Product in 162 Sessions
    Rating the Pitch, Not the Product: User Evaluations of LLMs Reflect Expectations More Than Performance
    · ·13 min·Jul 07, 2026
  7. 204
    The Length Estimate Hiding Inside a Word-by-Word Model
    How Much is Left? LLMs Linearly Encode Their Remaining Output Length
    · ·14 min·Jul 07, 2026
  8. 203
    The Thought a Model Doesn't Say — and the Lens That Reads It
    Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models
    Gurnee, Sofroniew, Pearce et al. · Anthropic·16 min·Jul 07, 2026
  9. 202
    How Do You Know an AI Agent Actually Refused? Check the World, Not the Words
    Safety Testing LLM Agents at Scale: From Risk Discovery to Evidence-Grounded Verification
    Feng, Lin, Wen et al. · AntGroup / Hunan Institute of Advanced Technology·18 min·Jul 06, 2026
  10. 201
    One in Four NeurIPS Papers Cites a Reference That Doesn't Exist
    Phantom References: Hallucinated Citations That Survive Peer Review at Top-Tier Conferences
    Russinovich, Kumar, Salem · Microsoft·19 min·Jul 06, 2026
  11. 200
    The One Mechanism That Turns Twenty AI Clones Into an Actual Team
    EVOCHAMBER: Test-Time Co-evolution of Multi-Agent System at Individual, Team, and Population Scales
    Zhang, Xu, Dai et al. · Oregon State University; AG2AI·19 min·Jul 04, 2026
  12. 199
    Finding a Model's Hidden Behaviors Without Knowing What You're Looking For
    Mechanistically Eliciting Latent Behaviors in Language Models
    Mack, Panickssery, Turner · Principles of Intelligence·15 min·Jul 04, 2026
  13. 198
    The Model That Knows the Answer and Can't Say It
    Can Language Models Actually Retrieve In-Context? Drowning in Documents at Million Token Scale
    Gollapudi, Gupta, Singhal et al. · UC Berkeley·17 min·Jul 03, 2026
  14. 197
    Twin Problems Suggest AI Reasoning Gains Are Mostly Better Fact Recall
    IsoSci: A Benchmark of Isomorphic Cross-Domain Science Problems for Evaluating Reasoning versus Knowledge Retrieval in LLMs
    Abdaljalil, Serpedin, Kurban · Texas A&M University·17 min·Jul 03, 2026
  15. 196
    AI Agents Reached Opposite Conclusions From the Same Data — and Passed Review
    The Agentic Garden of Forking Paths
    Miao, Pritchard, Zou · Stanford University·18 min·Jul 03, 2026
  16. 195
    Why 'Be Careful' Does Nothing for AI Coding Agents, and What Does
    Coding Agents Are Guessing: Measuring Action-Boundary Violations in Underspecified DevOps Instructions
    Ji, Zhang, Xu et al. · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology·15 min·Jul 03, 2026
  17. 194
    How a Robot Builds a Debugging Notebook It Can Read, Edit, and Hand to Another Robot
    ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for Robotics
    Lu, Wu, Kou et al. · NVIDIA·24 min·Jul 02, 2026
  18. 193
    Freeze Most of the Network: Where RL Improvement Actually Lives in a Transformer
    Is One Layer Enough? Training A Single Transformer Layer Can Match Full-Parameter RL Training
    Zhang, Hu, Glentis et al. · University of Minnesota·22 min·Jul 02, 2026
  19. 192
    A 32B Open Model Matched Frontier Systems By Learning to Take Notes
    AutoMem: Automated Learning of Memory as a Cognitive Skill
    Wu, Zhu, Zhang et al. · Stanford University·22 min·Jul 02, 2026
  20. 191
    How One Researcher Beat GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 by Judging Their Answers, Not Improving Them
    Modality-Driven Search with Holistic Trace Judging for ARC-AGI-2
    Land · Independent Researcher·26 min·Jul 02, 2026
  21. 190
    The Skill Every AI Manager Is Missing: Handing Out Exactly the Right Keys
    ClawArena-Team: Benchmarking Subagent Orchestration and Dynamic Workflows in Language-Model Agents
    Xiong, Ji, Qiu et al. · UNC Chapel Hill·21 min·Jul 02, 2026
  22. 189
    Why Phone Agents Ace the Test and Crash on Your Actual Phone
    Xiaomi-GUI-0 Technical Report
    Team, Qu, Luan · Xiaomi·24 min·Jul 02, 2026
  23. 188
    A Coding Agent Found a Hole in a Peer-Reviewed STOC Proof for Five Dollars
    Beyond the Library: An Agentic Framework for Autoformalizing Research Mathematics
    Moakhar, Gholami, Springer et al. · University of Maryland·20 min·Jul 02, 2026
  24. 187
    An 8-Billion Agent That Beats Models 80 Times Its Size By Looking Things Up
    An AI agent for treatment reasoning over a biomedical tool universe
    Gao, Noori, Zhu et al. · Department of Biomedical Informatics·19 min·Jun 30, 2026
  25. 186
    How a Frozen Model Went From 2% to 77% on Physics Puzzles — Without Retraining
    Hierarchical Experimentalist Agents
    Chandra, Vaidyanathan, Dhanuka et al. · University of Massachusetts Amherst·22 min·Jun 30, 2026
  26. 185
    Aligned to Refuse, Built to Tap: When Phone Agents Know the Task Is a Crime and Do It Anyway
    It Lied to a Doctor to Buy Poison Ingredients: Quantifying Real-World Misuse of Phone-use Agents
    Sun, Chen, Zhou et al. · Fudan University·27 min·Jun 30, 2026
  27. 184
    An AI Built an Undetectable Secret Channel, And Another AI Couldn't Find It
    Tool Use Enables Undetectable Steganography in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
    Rippin, Marshall, Africa et al. · Oxford University·19 min·Jun 30, 2026
  28. 183
    Why You Can't Fine-Tune Foresight Into an AI Agent
    Internalizing the Future: A Unified Agentic Training Paradigm for World Model Planning
    Zhang, Zhou, Qiao et al. · Fudan University / Shanghai Innovation Institute / Tencent Youtu Lab·23 min·Jun 29, 2026
  29. 182
    How a Tiny Model Too Weak to Plan Cuts a Bigger Agent's Hallucinations by 80%
    Grounded Iterative Language Planning: How Parameterized World Models Reduce Hallucination Propagation in LLM Agents
    Song, Cai · Emory University·17 min·Jun 29, 2026
  30. 181
    How to Backpropagate Blame Through a Team of Chatbots — And When It Backfires
    GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems
    Yang, Alrabah, Hakkani-Tür et al. · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign·20 min·Jun 29, 2026
  31. 180
    The Bug Where Smart Assistants Read a Fact and Still Forget It
    Supersede: Diagnosing and Training the Memory-Update Gap in LLM Agents
    Patel · Vrin·24 min·Jun 29, 2026
  32. 179
    How DeepSeek Made One User Faster Without Slowing Down the Crowd
    DSpark: Confidence-Scheduled Speculative Decoding with
    XinCheng, XingkaiYu, ChenzeShao et al. · Peking University / DeepSeek-AI·23 min·Jun 27, 2026
  33. 178
    How an AI Reviewer Learned to Stop Going Easy on AI Writing
    The Red Queen Gödel Machine: Co-Evolving Agents and Their Evaluators
    Iacob, Jovanović, Shen et al. · University of Cambridge·23 min·Jun 26, 2026
  34. 177
    Why Raw Profiler Data Made an AI Worse at Writing GPU Code
    Optimizing CUDA like a Human: Micro-Profiling Tools as Expert Surrogates for LLM-Based GPU Kernel Optimization
    Gai, Zhang, Bostrom et al. · Amazon·25 min·Jun 26, 2026
  35. 176
    An AI Designed Its Own Psychology Studies, Then Confirmed What It Found
    Closing the Loop to Discover Psychological Theories with an Automated Cognitive Scientist
    Jagadish, Strittmatter, Jacoby et al. · Princeton University·31 min·Jun 26, 2026
  36. 175
    One Crosscoder Feature Flips a Stalling Chatbot Into a Working Agent
    Localizing RL-Induced Tool Use to a Single Crosscoder Feature
    Shportko, Bhokare, AlZahrani et al. · Northwestern University·26 min·Jun 26, 2026
  37. 174
    When the AI 'Schemes,' It's Usually Just Lazy or Confused
    Model Forensics: Investigating Whether Concerning Behavior Reflects Misalignment
    Singh, Kroiz, Rajamanoharan et al. · MATS·28 min·Jun 25, 2026
  38. 173
    The Free Step-Level Grader Hiding in Every RL Training Run
    Neglected Free Lunch from Post-training: Progress Advantage for LLM Agents
    Oh, Li, Park et al. · University of Wisconsin–Madison·22 min·Jun 25, 2026
  39. 172
    One Bad Token Can Sink a Model's Math, And You Can Delete It
    Cliff Tokens: Identifying Single-Token Failure Triggers in LLM Mathematical Reasoning
    Ko, Kang, Lee · Seoul National University·22 min·Jun 25, 2026
  40. 171
    The Safety Decision a Model Makes Before It Thinks a Word
    Do Thinking Tokens Help with Safety?
    Ri, Panigrahi, Arora · Princeton Language and Intelligence·25 min·Jun 25, 2026
  41. 170
    When a One-Liner Beats Your Agent's Clever Verification Logic
    Bayesian control for coding agents
    Papamarkou, Smirnov, Mazanov et al. · PolyShape / National Technical University of Athens·26 min·Jun 24, 2026
  42. 169
    Why Better Bug Reports Can Make AI Coding Agents Worse
    SHERLOC: Structured Diagnostic Localization for Code Repair Agents
    Tamoyan, Narenthiran, Arakelyan et al. · NVIDIA / TU Darmstadt·24 min·Jun 24, 2026
  43. 168
    When Turning Experience Into Code Makes Your AI Agent Dumber
    Metis: Bridging Text and Code Memory for Self-Evolving Agents
    Dai, He, Li et al. · The Chinese University of Hong Kong·27 min·Jun 24, 2026
  44. 167
    How Teaching an AI to Predict, Not Act, Made It a Better Actor
    Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents
    Team, Zuo, Xiao et al. · ·27 min·Jun 24, 2026
  45. 166
    A Router That Beats the Frontier Models It Calls
    Sakana Fugu Technical Report
    Tang, Cetin, Xu et al. · Sakana AI·26 min·Jun 23, 2026
  46. 165
    A Free-Lunch Tweak That Lets a Tiny Agent Beat Frontier Giants
    Group-Graph Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Agentic Reinforcement Learning
    Wang, Song, Zhang et al. · Peking University·22 min·Jun 23, 2026
  47. 164
    The Summarizer That Quietly Deletes Your Agent's Safety Rules
    Governance Decay: How Context Compaction Silently Erases Safety Constraints in Long-Horizon LLM Agents
    Chen · Beijing Institute of Technology·28 min·Jun 23, 2026
  48. 163
    Why Training Only on Perfect Solutions Cripples a Model's Reasoning
    Provable Benefits of RLVR over SFT for Reasoning Models: Learning to Backtrack Efficiently
    Wei, Kim · Princeton University·22 min·Jun 23, 2026
  49. 162
    The Empty-Lake Proof: Why More Rollouts Stop Helping Reasoning Models
    Maximizing Rollout Informativeness under a Fixed Budget: A Submodular View of Tree Search for Tool-Use Agentic Reinforcement Learning
    Hu, Yu, Cheng et al. · Shanghai Jiao Tong University·27 min·Jun 22, 2026
  50. 161
    A Robot That Plays Before You Give It a Job, And Why That Beats Retrying
    Playful Agentic Robot Learning
    Zhang, Ge, Yoo et al. · University of California·19 min·Jun 19, 2026
  51. 160
    Training an AI to Take Its Own Notes, So Its Future Self Works Better
    Connect the Dots: Training LLMs for Long-Lifecycle Agents with Cross-Domain Generalization Via Reinforcement Learning
    Chen, Shi, Xie et al. · Alibaba Group·23 min·Jun 19, 2026
  52. 159
    Can a Coding Agent Run Its Own Robot Experiments Overnight, With No Human Resetting the Scene?
    ENPIRE: Agentic Robot Policy Self-Improvement in the Real World
    Xiao, Xie, Zhang et al. · NVIDIA·23 min·Jun 19, 2026
  53. 158
    How Floating-Point Rounding Lets a Model Tell Which Chip It's On — And Misbehave
    FloatDoor: Platform-Triggered Backdoors in LLMs
    Loose, Sander, Mächtle et al. · University of Luebeck·29 min·Jun 19, 2026
  54. 157
    When an AI Coding Agent Drives a Phone Through the Terminal, No Screen Needed
    Beyond the GUI Paradigm: Do Mobile Agents Need the Phone Screen?
    Gu, Jiang, Guo et al. · Mila–Québec AI Institute / Concordia University·24 min·Jun 19, 2026
  55. 156
    Why More Human Demonstrations Made a Computer-Use Agent Worse
    ProCUA-SFT Technical Report
    Jung, Lu, Cui et al. · NVIDIA / University of Washington·20 min·Jun 18, 2026
  56. 155
    Why a Flawless Demo Makes a Worse Computer-Using Agent, And the Fix
    Skill-Guided Continuation Distillation for GUI Agents
    Fan, Yu, Shen et al. · StepFun·22 min·Jun 18, 2026
  57. 154
    How a 7B Model Out-Investigates a 72B One by Choosing What to Look At
    Native Active Perception as Reasoning for Omni-Modal Understanding
    Xing, Xu, Wang et al. · The Chinese University of Hong Kong·21 min·Jun 18, 2026
  58. 153
    Catching a Lie From the Inside, When the Words Look Completely Honest
    Rift: A Conflict Signature for Deception in Language Models
    Nyoma · Harmonic Labs·26 min·Jun 18, 2026
  59. 152
    Training a Model to Mean What It Says, And Why That Isn't the Same as Being Good
    Self-CTRL: Self-Consistency Training with Reinforcement Learning
    Pres, Ruis, Ghebreselassie et al. · MIT CSAIL·26 min·Jun 18, 2026
  60. 151
    Why More Experience Made This AI Agent Worse, And How to Fix It
    Not All Skills Help: Measuring and Repairing Agent Knowledge
    Wang, Zhou, Liang et al. · UNC Chapel Hill·28 min·Jun 16, 2026
  61. 150
    Don't Kill the Loser: A Different Way to Handle Two AI Agents Colliding
    CoAgent: Concurrency Control for Multi-Agent Systems
    Lyu, Zhang, Wu et al. · Shanghai Jiao Tong University·32 min·Jun 16, 2026
  62. 149
    When Cornering a Chatbot Makes It Lie: J.P. Morgan's Case for 'Playing Dead'
    Is Your Agent Playing Dead? Deployed LLM Agents Exhibit Constraint-Evasive Fabrication and Thanatosis
    Rodríguez, Pozanco, Borrajo · J.P. Morgan AI Research·23 min·Jun 16, 2026
  63. 148
    Why Letting an AI Watch Its Own Scoreboard Can Quietly Overwrite Its Safety
    Greed Is Learned: Visible Incentives as Reward-Hacking Triggers
    Che, Wu · NVIDIA Research·26 min·Jun 16, 2026
  64. 147
    Agents Fail at the Body, Not the Brain: A Self-Rewriting Scaffold That Lifts a 9B Model 44 Points
    HarnessX: A Composable, Adaptive, and Evolvable Agent Harness Foundry
    Chen, Lu, Zhao et al. · ·30 min·Jun 15, 2026
  65. 146
    How an Innocent README Can Freeze an AI Agent's Safety Check for an Hour
    From Shield to Target: Denial-of-Service Attacks on LLM-Based Agent Guardrails
    Zhou, Wang, Ma et al. · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology·26 min·Jun 15, 2026
  66. 145
    Building Forgetting Into a Language Model With One Extra Line of Code
    Natively Unlearnable Large Language Models
    Ghosal, Maini, Raghunathan · Carnegie Mellon University·22 min·Jun 15, 2026
  67. 144
    When an AI Agent Just Copies Its Tool — And Bigger Models Copy More
    When the Tool Decides: LLM Agents Defer Blindly to Graph Neural Network Tools, and Stronger Backbones Defer More
    Wang, Vemuri · raptorX.ai·15 min·Jun 15, 2026
  68. 143
    When a Model Notices You Forged Its Own Words, And Why That Breaks Safety Tests
    Prefill Awareness in Large Language Models
    Wang, Mahajan, Africa et al. · Constellation / University of Wisconsin-Madison·24 min·Jun 12, 2026
  69. 142
    Training a Tiny Model to Run the Plumbing Between an Agent and the World
    HarnessBridge: Learnable Bidirectional Controller for LLM Agent Harness
    Wang, Wang, Taylor et al. · University of California·24 min·Jun 12, 2026
  70. 141
    How Two Tokens Reopened a Reasoning Method the Field Had Given Up On
    Demystifying Hidden-State Recurrence: Switchable Latent Reasoning with On-Policy Reinforcement Learning
    Yang, Chen, Wu et al. · HKUST(GZ)·29 min·Jun 12, 2026
  71. 140
    When a Reasoning Model Says "Let Me Double-Check" After It's Already Decided
    Beyond the Commitment Boundary: Probing Epiphenomenal Chain-of-Thought in Large Reasoning Models
    Scalena, Candussio, Bortolussi et al. · University of Groningen / University of Milano-Bicocca·27 min·Jun 12, 2026
  72. 139
    When Optimizing One GPU Kernel Quietly Breaks the Whole System
    Arbor: Tree Search as a Cognition Layer for Autonomous Agents
    Prakriya, Hou, Gong et al. · AMD·30 min·Jun 12, 2026
  73. 133
    How MiniMax Turned a Reward-Hacking Disaster Into Olympiad Gold
    MaxProof: Scaling Mathematical Proof with Generative-Verifier RL and Population-Level Test-Time Scaling
    Chen, Zhang, Zhang et al. · MiniMax / The Chinese University of Hong Kong·34 min·Jun 12, 2026
  74. 132
    The Agent Failed — But Did the Instructions Deserve to Be Followed?
    SkillAxe: Sharpening LLM-Authored Agent Skills Through Evaluation-Guided Self-Refinement
    Gautam, Radhakrishna, Gulwani · Microsoft·30 min·Jun 11, 2026
  75. 131
    Why Autonomous Research Agents Forget Their Own Lessons, and Arbor's Fix
    Toward Generalist Autonomous Research via Hypothesis-Tree Refinement
    Jin, Hu, Qiu et al. · Renmin University of China·33 min·Jun 11, 2026
  76. 130
    Why AI Agents Coordinate Better Through a Shared Board Than a Boss
    Decentralized Multi-Agent Systems with Shared Context
    Mao, Mirhoseini · Stanford University·34 min·Jun 11, 2026
  77. 129
    How a Crowd of Anonymous AI Agents Broke a 40-Year Math Record
    Harnessing the Collective Intelligence of AI Agents in the Wild for New Discoveries
    Bianchi, Kwon, Pappu et al. · Together AI·29 min·Jun 11, 2026
  78. 128
    How a Model Can Earn Full Reward and Still Resist Training
    Generalization Hacking: Models Can Game Reinforcement Learning by Preventing Behavioral Generalization
    Xiao, Phuong · California Institute of Technology·29 min·Jun 11, 2026
  79. 127
    What Diffusion Language Models Were Missing: A Map, Not an Algorithm
    TextLDM: Language Modeling with Continuous Latent Diffusion
    Jiang, Ren, Li et al. · JoyFuture Academy / HIT·30 min·Jun 11, 2026
  80. 126
    How Coding Agents Can Mine Their Own Failures Into a Self-Targeting Curriculum
    Socratic-SWE: Self-Evolving Coding Agents via Trace-Derived Agent Skills
    Xiao, Jiao, Wang et al. · Shanghai Jiao Tong University·21 min·Jun 09, 2026
  81. 125
    AI Coding Agents Run a Marathon, and Fewer Than One in Three Finish
    SWE-Marathon: Can Agents Autonomously Complete Ultra-Long-Horizon Software Work?
    Desai, Hu, Cabezas et al. · Abundant·27 min·Jun 09, 2026
  82. 124
    A Cheap Model With the Blueprints Beats Expensive Models Working Blind
    Hardening Agent Benchmarks with Adversarial Hacker-Fixer Loops
    Zhong, Segal, Bercovich et al. · Carnegie Mellon University·27 min·Jun 09, 2026
  83. 123
    Five Identical Worlds, One Swapped Model: What Happens When AI Agents Run for Fifteen Days
    Emergence World: A Platform for Evaluating Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Autonomy
    Akkil, Kokku, Vikram et al. · Emergence AI·30 min·Jun 09, 2026
  84. 122
    When Your Coding Agent Lies About the Fix: Verifying the Plan Before the Model Runs
    Lean4Agent: Formal Modeling and Verification for Agent Workflow and Trajectory
    Wang, Huang, Wang et al. · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign·24 min·Jun 09, 2026
  85. 121
    When the Agent Says It's Done But Nothing Happened: Debugging the Harness, Not the Model
    From Failed Trajectories to Reliable LLM Agents: Diagnosing and Repairing Harness Flaws
    Chen, Wang, Liu et al. · Institute of Software·27 min·Jun 05, 2026
  86. 120
    How an AI Agent Rewrites Its Own Tools, Without an Answer Key
    Retrospective Harness Optimization: Improving LLM Agents via Self-Preference over Trajectory Rollouts
    Pan, Liu, Lin et al. · City University of Hong Kong·30 min·Jun 05, 2026
  87. 119
    Beating Reinforcement Learning Without Ever Touching the Model's Weights
    Agentic Monte Carlo: Simulating Reinforcement Learning for Black-Box Agents
    Hwang, Suri, Villecroze et al. · Layer6 AI·22 min·Jun 05, 2026
  88. 118
    Why the Best-Aligned AI Models Are the Easiest to Trick Into Producing Harm
    Safety Paradox: How Enhanced Safety Awareness Leaves LLMs Vulnerable to Posterior Attack
    Hoang, Le, Xu et al. · Singapore University of Technology and Design·23 min·Jun 05, 2026
  89. 117
    How an Open AI System Verified 672 Hard Math Proofs for Under $300
    Goedel-Architect: Streamlining Formal Theorem Proving with Blueprint Generation and Refinement
    Chung, Cai, Li et al. · Princeton University·26 min·Jun 05, 2026
  90. 116
    Why Streaming Half a Reasoning Chain Beats Sending the Whole Thing
    Streaming Communication in Multi-Agent Reasoning
    Yang, Xu, Wang et al. · HKUST (GZ)·26 min·Jun 04, 2026
  91. 115
    Teaching a Phone Agent to Reason Silently, And Keeping It Honest
    MIRAGE: Mobile Agents with Implicit Reasoning and Generative World Models
    Yang, Hu, Hao et al. · Beihang University·24 min·Jun 04, 2026
  92. 114
    Agents That Rewrite Their Own Weights Instead of Just Taking Notes
    Scaling Self-Evolving Agents via Parametric Memory
    Ren, Luo, Yang et al. · Peking University / Alibaba Group·26 min·Jun 04, 2026
  93. 113
    What If a Prompt Injection Never Left? Attacks That Wait in Agent Memory
    What If Prompt Injection Never Left? Exploring Cross-Session Stored Prompt Injection in Agentic Systems
    Xie, Liu, Zhang et al. · Institute of Information Engineering·27 min·Jun 04, 2026
  94. 112
    When an AI Agent Cheats Without Being Told: Inside the Meta-Agent Challenge
    The Meta-Agent Challenge: Are Current Agents Capable of Autonomous Agent Development?
    Lu, Wang, Wang et al. · Institute of Software·22 min·Jun 04, 2026
  95. 111
    How a 4B Web Agent Beat Models 60x Its Size on 500 Demonstrations
    OpenWebRL: Demystifying Online Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning for Visual Web Agents
    Yang, Wu, Chen et al. · UIUC·24 min·Jun 03, 2026
  96. 110
    How an Agent Got 44 Points Better by Mining Its Own Scratch Paper
    Inducing Reasoning Primitives from Agent Traces
    Lei, Yan, Momo et al. · Carnegie Mellon University·27 min·Jun 03, 2026
  97. 109
    An AI Got Caught Reading the Answer Key, And Why That Catch Matters
    EvoTrainer: Co-Evolving LLM Policies and Training Harnesses for Autonomous Agentic Reinforcement Learning
    Chen, Shi, Li et al. · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology·28 min·Jun 03, 2026
  98. 108
    The Reasoning Cliff: Why Thinking Longer Makes Models Worse at Exact Step-by-Step Tasks
    The Deterministic Horizon: When Extended Reasoning Fails and Tool Delegation Becomes Necessary
    Guo, Wu, Yiu · The University of Hong Kong·32 min·Jun 03, 2026
  99. 107
    How a Market of Crippled AI Agents Outscored One Unrestricted Model
    Economy of Minds: Emerging Multi-Agent Intelligence with Economic Interactions
    Qi, Su, Qu et al. · Harvard·26 min·Jun 03, 2026
  100. 106
    Giving Agents a Notebook Instead of New Weights: How ExpGraph Lets Frozen Models Learn
    ExpGraph: Model-Agnostic Experience Learning with Graph-Structured Memory for LLM Agents
    Feng, Ye, Luo et al. · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign·26 min·Jun 02, 2026
  101. 105
    The Trojan Is Your Agent's Memory: Why Single-Step Defenses Miss Persistent Attacks
    From Prompt Injection to Persistent Control: Defending Agentic Harness Against Trojan Backdoors
    Tan, Dou, Yang et al. · Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence·26 min·Jun 01, 2026
  102. 104
    How Making a Research Agent Smarter Quietly Makes It Leak Your Secrets
    MosaicLeaks:Privacy Risks in Querying-in-the-Open for Deep Research Agents
    Gurung, Gella, Drouin et al. · University of Edinburgh·25 min·Jun 01, 2026
  103. 103
    AI Agents Tried to Invent a Post-Human Language, And Reinvented Cherokee
    Emergent Languages in Populations of Language Model Agents: From Token Efficiency to Oversight Evasion
    Beltoft, Brach, Torrielli et al. · University of Southern Denmark·26 min·Jun 01, 2026
  104. 102
    How to Catch an AI Attack That No Single Conversation Reveals
    Stateful Online Monitoring Catches Distributed Agent Attacks
    Brown, Bhargav, Santhanam et al. · University of Pennsylvania·24 min·Jun 01, 2026
  105. 101
    Treating Math Formalization Like a Codebase, and Where the Agents Cheat
    Formalizing Mathematics at Scale
    Rammal, Patel, Gloeckle et al. · FAIR at Meta / CERMICS·27 min·May 29, 2026
  106. 100
    How a Prompt Wrapper Lets a Frontier Model Play Poker Like an Expert
    PokerSkill: LLMs Can Play Expert-Level Poker without Training or Solvers
    Li, Wang, Huang · IIIS·29 min·May 29, 2026
  107. 099
    How an Open-Book Trick Teaches a Model to Catch Its Own Mistakes
    Self-Trained Verification for Training- and Test-Time Self-Improvement
    Wu, Raghunathan · Carnegie Mellon University·21 min·May 29, 2026
  108. 098
    Finding Millions of Readable Concepts Inside a Real, Deployed AI Model
    Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet
    Templeton, Conerly, Marcus et al. · Anthropic·28 min·May 29, 2026
  109. 097
    Same Tokens, Same Cost, Wildly Different Results: What Actually Scales in AI Agents
    Scaling Laws for Agent Harnesses via Effective Feedback Compute
    Zhang, Wang, Xu et al. · Harbin Institute of Technology·25 min·May 29, 2026
  110. 096
    How Treating an AI Agent's Execution Like Git Recovers a Coordination Penalty
    Shepherd: A Runtime Substrate Empowering Meta-Agents with a Formalized Execution Trace
    Yu, Chong, Nandi et al. · Northeastern University·22 min·May 28, 2026
  111. 095
    Seven Wins to Zero: How Organizing AI Agents Like a Lab Changes the Search
    AutoScientists: Self-Organizing Agent Teams for Long-Running Scientific Experimentation
    Gao, Fang, Zitnik · Harvard University·24 min·May 28, 2026
  112. 094
    Chain-of-Thought Monitoring Fails Across Languages, and Worst Where It's Needed Most
    The Fragility of Chain-of-Thought Monitoring Across Typologically Diverse Languages
    Onyame, Zhou, Thopalli et al. · University of Virginia·24 min·May 28, 2026
  113. 093
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